We’ve designed a ‘flux capacitor’, but it won’t take us Back to the Future
In the Back to the Future movies, the DeLorean car was able to travel through time thanks to a flux...
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Low-carbon computing is needed to avoid a technological collapse
wk1003mike / shutterstockHuman society has come to rely on superior gadgets being produced every year. Each year, new phones or...
Alan Turing: visionary, war hero and the only choice for the £50 note
Alan Turing statue at Bletchley Park. Duane Wessels/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SAThe Bank of England has decided that the next prominent figure...
IBM launches commercial quantum computing – we’re not ready for what comes next
IBM's quantum computer, Q System One. IBMIBM recently unveiled what it claimed was the world’s first commercial quantum computer. While...
How to make computers faster and climate friendly
The Internet of Things could improve quality of life, but it will also consume vast amounts of electricity and boost...
Women are better than men at the free throw line
As basketball season comes into full swing, consider another competition – the one between the blue and pink teams. The...
When it comes to computing, rural schools are at risk of being left behind
Rural schools don't always have the latest tech. Monkey Business Images/ShuttertockOn our way to a school just outside the small...
In the future, everyone might use quantum computers
A seven-qubit quantum device at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. AP Photo/Seth WenigComputers were...
Computing faces an energy crunch unless new technologies are found
The tools on our smartphones are enabled by a huge network of mobile phone towers, Wi-Fi networks and server farms....
Starling murmurations: the science behind one of nature’s greatest displays
Menno Schaefer / shutterstockWatching starling murmurations as the birds swoop, dive and wheel through the sky is one of the...
